Fishing near Newton in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• 2in Arbogast Jitterbug (dont know how he mouthed it)
• Rage Tail rubber grub
• 3 Inch Arbogast Jitterbug
• 2in Arbogast Jitterbug
• 2in Jitterbug
• Black Yamamoto Yamosenkos rigged wacky. 3/8 jointed black jitterbug.
• Black hinged jitterbug.
• 1/8 Rainbow Blue Fox Vibrax spinnerbait
  
  Yellow Size 3 Mepps Black Fury
• HJ8 Rapala Husky jerk
• KASTMASTER PERCH COLOR OR SPOONS PERCH COLOR

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• worm
• slug
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• SEAWORMS
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• Live eels

Tube Check Prices

• use small tube
• tube dark...
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• minitube flourescent
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Tube and huge sea worms

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head

Minnow Check Prices

• Dead minnows
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• shiner
• small minnows, pretty active
• minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• medium-sized shiner
• shiners
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 3inch Black Jitterbug
• Black Jitterbug
• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
• Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
• I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.
• 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• Red/Red
• green w/ red fleck
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• Senko
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Green Popper Frog Fly
• Joes fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse
• 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
• tandem willow, firetiger
• war eagle spinnerbait, in the
  "screming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in a 1/4 size. Awesome!
• BLACK TANDEM WILLOW
• war eagle spinnerbait in the "screaming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in the size of a 1/4 oz
• White spinner bait
• use orange spinner.. blue fox
• Golden Shiner spinnerbait and black buzzbait. Big fish on the spinnerbait.
• White Double willow spinner

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm
• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• rapala
• Rapala Original Silver
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• rooster tail
• #4 Mepps with natural colored dressed trebles. 3/8 oz Blue Fox spoon, red and white striped with nickel underside.
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• All Between 5" and 7"
• After not getting much action out of the worms, I decided to toss one of my old mepps black fly spinners out. On the second cast I caught the largest bass I've ever seen down here.
• An 8", 2 10"ers, and a 13" 1lb
• Rooster Tail
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 2 in the 6-7 inch range
• 9" and 10" Smallies

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

• 6" bass pro senko mardi gras
• Live trout worms
• Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Stik-o-worm Salt Impregnated Bubblegaum
• Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Stik-o-Worm Salt Impregnated Bubblegum and Pumpkinseed/Chartreuse
• Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Stik-o-worm Salt Impregnated Pumpkin Seed/Chartreuse
• 4 inch yomato chartuese worm
• silver/whiteish, worked it slow and jerky deep in the weeds. bright sun
• The small largemouth was caught on one of those red shad power worms again. Those things just seem to produce everywhere! Once again it was texas rigged, which is of greater importance here due to the massive amounts of lily pads and other weeds.
• I caught this pickerel on one of those weed less creme baits. Recently it has proven itself to be a fine bass lure, and as any angler knows, if a bass will eat it, so will a pickerel!
• I bought a plastic worm with a weedless stinger rig at walmart last week. I decided to use it down at the cove for getting into those lily pad patches. Boy does it cut through those nicley. Shortly after catching this fish I promptly got it stuck in a tree. Looks like i'm headed back to walmart!

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• xps swimbait
• Dark Senkos wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Crank and buzzbait
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Drop Shot
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• Jigs & Worms
  Our Limit:
  Chuck had a 3lber
  I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber
  
  The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Biggest fish on a Strike King Bluegill Swim Jig
  One on Sexy Shad 4S crankbait
  One on Natural Frog Zara Spook
  Four on Pearl Zoom Salty Super Fluke
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
• Rapala Husky Jerk #6
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait

Craw Check Prices

• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• SPRO BBZ1
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

• Deep diver Purple slow retreive
• Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.
• 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
• Rat-l-trap
• Rapala Original Floating Minnow
• Rapala Original - F-9 - Bleeding Crawdad
• Strike King 1XS
• One on a floating minnow, one on a wakebait
• Rapala Original F-7 - Perch
• Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• Northland tackle Jungle Jig
  3/8 oz Watermelon w/ blackflake, matching zoom chunk trailer
• Booyah boo jig watermelon,
  Zoom chunk trailer
• Tube brown and red fig
• Green Football Jig with Green and Chartreuse Skirt
• Strike King KVD swim jig, Bluegill pattern, with green pumpkin grub trailer.
• And Senko
  Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
• Pitched a war eagle flippin jig to a sweet wall that always holds bass
• USED GARY YAMAMOTTO WORMS HOOKED WEEDLESS
  SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF
  PULLED IN WEEDS AND 2 BASS
  THE WEEDS DOWN IN THE COVE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETLY TAKEN OVER SEASON IS ALMOST OVER FOR SHORE FISHING DOWN THERE AND THE FISH HAVE BEEN SMALL FROM THE CHARLES THIS YEAR.
• Jig and pig in the bushes and trees

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Lake fork magic shad
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Storm 2in Perch

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger
• Olive wooly bugger
• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• regular silver spoon
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• live worm on float
• night crawler on a float
• Kids materials
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• rattler
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Greyish, green, red face
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
• Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Dropshot
• Berkley White Grub.
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms
• Sea Worms
• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

• White Berkely Honey worm
• Natural Berkley Honey worm
• SENKO GREEN
• Rainbow powerbait
• Powerbait
• Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.
• Power Bait
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Yellow power eggs
• 3 Berkley Gulp Salmon Eggs on a treble hook floating from the bottom about 8-10inches high.